Estela Martinez was unsuccessful the first time she filed for bankruptcy in 2009.

The Dallas woman, however, did not give up. She filed five more times between then and 2012. The feds took notice and charged her this month with bankruptcy fraud.

It turns out, she omitted some key information from court filings during her failed attempts to make it through bankruptcy court in Dallas, such as her social security number, according to the May 21 indictment.

Martinez, 53, also failed to disclose her previous bankruptcy filings, the indictment said.

Martinez had a lawyer the first two times she filed -- in 2009. After that, she filed on her own without an attorney, court records show. And each time, a federal bankruptcy judge dismissed her Chapter 13 petitions because she failed to file certain required documents in time, such as a statement of current monthly income.

Her first attempt shows $189,005 in debt secured with collateral, most of it mortgage debt. She also had $74,362 in unsecured debt, according to court documents.